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Re: Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.

Jon Robinson — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:48:38 -0000

@Daniel I don't use any firefox shortcuts, and that is probably why I found it so easy to switch to Safari....

@Steven I'm not absolutely sure what type-ahead find is, but in the Safari 3 beta, the find function is brought up to speed to Firefox's.

Re: Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.

Steven G. Harms — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:11:15 -0000

I actually tried going the FF route post-SXSW ( you coming ? ), and I find the lack of

type-ahead find
firebug

To be real dealbreakers. The former as it's incredibly freaking handy, and the latter because I don't own an Adobe suite ( as i write my web code by hand ).

Has anyone solved these?

Re: Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.

Daniel Miessler — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:50:36 -0000

@John

What Firefox-specific shortcuts do you use?

Re: Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.

Jon Henshaw — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:49:26 -0000

I've tried to switch several times, but as a Web Developer I keep coming back to Firefox. I find the Add-Ons that I use to be too valuable. I also prefer Firefox's keyboard shortcuts (although I'm sure I could mimic those in Safari I wanted to).

Re: Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.

Daniel Miessler — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:54:57 -0000

@Tony

I'm using SAFT for the quick searches. How do you set them up in Quick Silver? I'll have to check that out. Maybe that's a better solution.

Re: Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.

Jon Robinson — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:38:35 -0000

I switched to Safari a few months after I bought a mac (10 months ago). I tried it out and it isuch more pleasant to use (I'm using the new beta now, which is also nice) and has better integration with the rest of the system. I found it much faster, but that seems to be different for everyone. I still use Firefox for the Web Developer, Search-status and DownThemAll, when I need them.

I met the guy in charge of the Firefox UI at the Web 2.0 conference. I mentioned that they need to fix the UI on Mac and he said they don't have any clear guidelines from Apple. It was then I noticed that Safari, Mail.app, iTunes, etc, all have different looks. I guess the Firefox folks haven't decided which direction to go.

Daniel, I remember you posted about only using Microsoft kit when using Windows to make sure the experience was what they wanted...you should at least try that out with Apple too.

Re: Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.

Tony Vance — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:23:55 -0000

What did you use to set up quick searches in Safari? SafariStand? I use QuickSilver to launch quick searches. To me, it takes the concept of a quick search one step further because I can launch a search from anywhere, not just from within a web browser.

Re: Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.

Eamon Landon — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:32:40 -0000

I use Firefox on my PCs but on my Macs I use Safari. I still have Firefox and Opera on my Macs, but I rarely use either. I just have always liked the look of Safari on OSX vs the others.

One thing I did notice, Firefox seems to load pages a hair faster. I don't know why but it does on my machine. But it's still not enough to turn me away from Safari.